It’s entirely arbitrary but most of us have been conditioned to accept that blue jeans are more or less neutral so you can wear them with pretty much anything. Red isn’t.
Primary blue is likewise extremely rare as a color for jeans these days. “Blue” jeans are really indigo in color, or if you don’t accept indigo as a color on its own, the blue of jeans has a lot of violet/purple in it.
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Red would compliment your tan complexion. Maybe not pants, but a gentlemen shirt would.
Well played, sir / madam.
I think I’ll do the tangent / nitpick after all:
Indigo dye is the most common dye used for blue jeans but that’s not the same thing as saying blue jeans are really indigo. If you look at a rack of blue jeans in a store there are many shades of blue* because firstly indigo is not the only blue dye available, but more importantly it’s frequently combined with other dyes. There’s also the color of the cross fibres to consider (white in traditional denim, but of course can be dyed also to give the jeans, say, a greenish appearance).
- I’m most familiar with stores in Europe. As alluded in this thread, there may be (parts of) the US that dress more conservatively and so stores stock a more limited choice of jean colors.
I saw a guy wearing red jeans at my local bar Friday night. They looked weird. But he was Canadian so there is always that.
Personally, I don’t wear red jeans because I don’t wear red anything. Besides a couple pairs of boxers, I don’t own a single warm-colored item of clothing. Just not my thing.
I have a pair of red jeans, had them for years - except they’re more a pinkish now.
It’s therefore possible I’m turning gayer.